Re: how to remove the LILO from my harddisk MBR

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From: Michael Lindenberg
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 00:00

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Jackson Chan wrote:

> I got a problem that I can't remove the LILO from my harddisk, even through
> I have already deleted the dos partition and linux partition, low level
> formatting the harddisk, the machine still boot up from LILO
> and then hang up. I installed dos 6.22 with configuring the harddisk.
> but the machine still boot up from LILO. I know the boot record still
> resident in mbr of my harddisk. Can anyone teach me how to remove it
> completely ?
>

Use MsDos FDISK
    with the undocumented switch /MBR

Michael Lindenberg

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From: Michael Lindenberg <100271.1172@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: how to remove the LILO from my harddisk MBR
Date: 1998/11/03
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